Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-12-17 | Page 4 | A Barren Fad

4 T j A t Barren Fad Fad Periodically we have descriptions of h ld iii London jI something between betwee a mist and nd a smoke is made ade to rep rep- resent the disembodied spirits and words are h heard ard as s coming fro h the spir spirIts ts The matter is hardly worth d discussing espe- espe by people who know nothing of except what i 18 cabled This This business in one or another form has been g gOing ing on since i 1848 48 when the Fox girls in Roches er Y first set sef the world agog by pretending to be mediums ey cOl confessed essed the fraud later but that mattered not to those thos who were crazy to ascertain the real truth The Th singular thing that in the sixty five y years ars since nothing has been reported from those sources save the most commonplace stuff nothing to g give e e eger eager ger people any idea of the world in those th sc ghosts assume to exit exist nothing 1 which clever tricksters might ight no not prepare Often the reports that distinguished say ghosts have given from florn the spirits of men whO lived centuries ago buhe so d are invariably as stale and ana flat as a street hucksters huckster's harangues 1 re no thee the f folding doors of death 4 there still athi b busy sy th the petty things that edt th here et s e Js it ot- ot fan tb that n has come mc ba back k winch h if Is ald of r service e 01 winch carri s any r real l comfort to those on tins this I